Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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